Teresa

“He walked away from me and my fingers left the fabric of his jacket, the inches of air sneaking in quickly between us, adding up until they multiplied into an unfathomable distance. Until a part of myself had driven off into the night, leaving me standing there alone.”
― Kate Scelsa, Fans of the Impossible Life

“For every new door we open in our lives, another one must remain closed. With each new choice we make, no matter how small it may seem at the time—to grab a coffee, to stay put a minute longer, to go home and sulk or not—we commit ourselves to a particular path. A certain destiny. And, often without ever realizing it, we commit all the people we love to this path, too.”
― Angela Brown, Some Other Time

“...things are always going to move for different people at different times. You've gotta be patient. Set your own pace.”
― Emma Lord, You Have a Match

“and of course, you can't ever really know what happens to another person, or what they think happens to them, which amounts to the same thing.”
― Claire Messud, The Burning Girl